Girl Meets Season 5

Episode 2 - Girl Meets Jealousy

It had started with Farkle and slowly moved through the group, in the first few weeks of the semester each of the guys saw a glimpse of what it would be like if someone took their girl away from them. They weren't jealous or at least they wouldn't admit it to anyone, because it took someone else pointing it out for them to realize how much they really cared about their relationship, and how much they hated how other guys thought it was okay to flirt with unavailable women.

For Farkle it happened because him and Smackle had been placed in two different AP Science classes that semester. So after years of being each other's lab partners they had been separated for the first time. He didn't want to think it was bad, he loved Smackle and she needed to broaden her horizon so it wasn't bad. That was until the day that Smackle had to stay behind for a project with her lab partner, she told Farkle to go ahead to Topanga's and save her a seat and that she would be there in an hour.

"See you soon," she had said with a smile right before she hugged him. Smackle had become increasingly comfortable with physical affection, and though they kissed very softly at times, she was still wary of true public displays.

"See you later my beloved," he had said as she pulled away from him. He smiled as she walked away towards the science labs and felt as if this was the way a couple should act. It was still awkward at times because they were never sure of how to proceed with their relationship in some aspects, but in others they had grown comfortable.

Closeness, and proximity towards one another, celebrating a singular event such as anniversaries and holidays, meeting one another's parental units. They had learned from their friends and emulated certain aspects of their relationships and continued the parts in which they were the most comfortable with.

So of course when Farkle had seen Smackle's lab partner, a tall teenager with dark hair and a leather jacket, he thought that it couldn't have been the person his beloved was partnered up with. He couldn't understand what had overcome him as he followed the teenager until he had entered the science lab and had given Smackle a smile. Farkle felt his face heat up and something slowly stabbing him in the heart.

"What is this feeling?" he wondered out loud as he watched the two work on their project. The boy getting closer and closer to Smackle as time went on, and Farkle feeling more and more restless until the other boy's hand was draped over Smackle's chair and Farkle had almost burst into the room to claim his territory.

Instead he walked away for a moment, rubbing his chest trying to figure out what was happening, was this jealously of someone getting so close to his girlfriend when he had been trying so hard to do everything right especially since Smackle had to deal with so much because of her Asperger's? He couldn't understand why he was feeling jealous especially since they had affirmed their status during freshman year, and why was this guy getting so close to her like he knew her.

It was a hormonal reaction, all teenage boys get it, as if he wanted to walk in there and mark his territory like an animal.

"I'm not an animal," he said out loud before walking away from the room.

It had taken him five minutes before he had rushed back towards the room and slammed the door against the wall. He was breathing heavily as he watched the two other people in the room stare at him as he breathed panted like a wild animal.

"Thank you Jason, my experiment is now complete," Smackle said before walking towards the window and shutting off a camera that Farkle had not seen before.

"Wha...." he said watching his girlfriend walk back towards her lab desk and sit down.

"Jason and I were conducting an experiment about whether a boy who has no actual problems in his relationship with his girl would react positively or negatively when another male is in the presence of his girlfriend. As you can see my love, I have proven my theory, that the males of the species will feel threatened no matter what."